Tweet Hannah and Amanda visited University of Central Lancashire for collaborative projects with Dr John Marsh and Melissa Barker and presented some of the new research from the lab.

TweetJasmine presented her Master’s project at the EPS conference Cognitive control, more specifically conflict processing abilities, are integral to daily human life. This study aimed to explore the relationship between the perception of emotional facial expressions and production of emotional speech … Continue reading →

TweetNew evidence of the survival of the Hebb repetition effect with both long repetition spacing and repetition irregularity published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.     St-Louis, M-E., Hughes, R. W., Saint-Aubin, J., & Tremblay, S. (in … Continue reading →

TweetJasmine gave a great presentation of her PhD project at the 2017 Postgraduate Convention at the Psychology Department’s annual event showcasing the work of the second year psychology PhD students.

Tweet  Amanda was recently chosen as one of the BPS Postgraduate Study Visit Award winners for 2017. The visit to Dr John Marsh’s lab at the University of Gavle, Sweden will take place later this year. The experiments planned will … Continue reading →

TweetOn September 4th, Rob gave an invited talk entitled ‘Auditory distraction during short-term remembering: A duplex-mechanism account’, as part of a symposium called ‘Cognition at the brink of failure: Multiple facets of auditory distraction’ at the meeting of the European Society of … Continue reading →

TweetAmanda gave her first national conference talk on the 31st of August at the BPS Cognitive Section conference in Newcastle about the perceptual and motor planning processes involved in verbal sequence learning.

TweetNew publications out! Check out the new paper on the determinants of short-term memory, this conference proceeding on reducing the disruption of cognitive performance by background speech, and the article on the contributions of speech output processes to semantic fluency.